"Let my cry come near before Thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to Thy word."
word for law - word; The last section of Psalm 119, section 22 - TAU. We begin the beginning of the end. Let my cry come near before Thee, O Lord - word study, come; word study for Psalm 119 - 'Let', 11th of 15 times used in this Psalm; 4 times used in this closing section; David is pleading with God to 'let' these things come to pass. Now what is he asking for? Let my prayer come unto Thee. Doesn't God hear all prayers? No, He doesn't; and He tells us that He will not hear some prayers. David knows this truth. Too bad so many in the church today have not learned this valuable lesson. 'If I regard iniqutiy in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.' He is asking of Almighty God to hear his prayer. Is it not right to ask permission of such things before a holy God? 'Lord, may I approach unto Thee?' Did not Esther wait for the king to stretch out the sceptre before approaching with her requests? You and I that are Chrsitians have been given the right to approach unto the throne through Christ's merits, atonement and offering. But I fear far too many approach unto the throne through their own vain deceit, their own works and their own merits. We cannot come but by the way that Christ made.
One way for such a failure in prayer is by coming in our own self-righteousness. Another way of failure to 'have our cry come near before the Lord' is to come with unbelief. You don't hear much on this sin. But it is one of the top 3 sins in the church, I thoroughly believe. They pray, they ask, they mention the need and the person, but they don't believe anything will change or happen. They have done their 'good work' of praying, but they did not prevail. And again I ask the question, what could does it do to pray, if we don't believe anything will happen? Isn't that vanity? Isn't that just as high an offence as any other against the Almighty God Who made heaven and earth and all that is therein? I beleive it to be a very high offense. Anothe reason for failure in our prayers coming unto Him is 'asking amiss'. We ask for selifsh, vain gain. God cannot be glorified in this, nor can He grant such a petition for He knows it will lead us astray. The good parent will not let a child chose and pracitice wrongly for the sake of the childs. They correct, they limit, they remove from them all that would harm, defile and corrupt. OUR heavenly Father is much better than any earthly parent, He will not let us have that which will cause sin in us or through us. so let us come near before the Lord and examine the 'why's of what we are praying for. Is it for the honor and glory of our Lord, or is it for ourselves?
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